Northern Lights square dance

Bill Litchman calls Floyd Parker's square dance, Northern Lights, at the Dare To Be Square weekend held November 18-20, 2011, at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC. Musicians are Steve Hickman and Jim Morrison, fiddles; Claudio Buchwald, piano; Sam Bartlett, banjo. The tune is "Blackberry Quadrille." More information about the dance, including sample patter, can be found on the website of the Lloyd Shaw Foundation: http://www.lloydshaw.org/Resources/Tr... The weekend was sponsored by the Folk School and by Country Dance and Song Society. It brought six well-known callers and 70 square dance enthusiasts together to explore many different styles of squares, including both traditional and modern. The organizers will post additional video clips-- watch this space!-- as well as make audio clips and a syllabus available. This video posting is part of the Square Dance History Project. More information about us can be found here: http://www.SquareDanceHistory.org Recorded 19 November 2011 by John-Michael Seng-Wheeler and David Millstone